. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . WITH T\V(J HUNDRED AXD l-TFTEEN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS IX THE TEXT, AND TWELVE COLORED PLATES BY THE AUTHOR CHICAGOC. McCLURG & S^j. V Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1911 X Published, May, 1911 Entered at Stationers Hall, Londeft, England. ^ THE • PLIMPTOH • PRESS [ W -D * O]MOBWOOD . MASS . 0 - S • A TO LOUISE LAMBERT HANCOCK WHOSE UNTIRING INTEREST AND ENCOURAGEMENT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST INCENTIVES I
. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . WITH T\V(J HUNDRED AXD l-TFTEEN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS IX THE TEXT, AND TWELVE COLORED PLATES BY THE AUTHOR CHICAGOC. McCLURG & S^j. V Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1911 X Published, May, 1911 Entered at Stationers Hall, Londeft, England. ^ THE • PLIMPTOH • PRESS [ W -D * O]MOBWOOD . MASS . 0 - S • A TO LOUISE LAMBERT HANCOCK WHOSE UNTIRING INTEREST AND ENCOURAGEMENT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST INCENTIVES IN ITS PREPARATION THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED PREFACE IN a popular exposition of the facts gleaned from nature,such as the present work is intended to convey, it may be moreagreeable to present the subject sometifties from the artisticor aesthetic point of view. This method does not sacrificetruth, which is the religion of science, but mitigates it, bring-ing about a wider reading circle and thereby serving a greaterusefulness. This work consists essentially of suggestive essaysdrawn from observations afield, and treating of various insects,birds, and plants. In this account there is brought togethera series of life histories of many of the animal forms. I havegiven more consideration here to the insects than to othergroups of animals. I think this is justifiable when it isremembered how many more represent
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